Use of P3P Vocabulary independent of http binding

Purpose

Workshop participants from a variety of technology communities have
recognized the value the P3P vocabulary for describing the privacy policies
of objects outside the HTTP URI scheme. This work item proposes a means of
abstracting the P3P vocabulary elements from their original HTTP context in
order to be useful in other application contexts. Successful completion has
two basic requirements:

abstract description of P3P vocabulary

demonstrated use of this abstract description in a non-http application
context

Scope

The goal of this work item is to develop a generalized representation of
the P3P vocabulary for use in applications contexts beyond http. This goal
can be satisfied by producing a W3C Note describing the P3P vocabulary alone,
without the associated protocol description in the P3P 1.0 Recommendation.
While this work must be done in cooperation with at least one other such
application context (such as Geopriv or other IETF activities, as an
example), this particular activity would not, itself, be responsible for
describing bindings to other URI schemes or application settings.

Resources

An initial draft of the proposal can be done by one or two individuals
familiar with P3P and the basics of Web architecture. W3C hopes to be able to
devote a few weeks of staff engineering resources to this activity in order
to develop the initial draft. Completing this work will require cooperation
with those in another application domain. The P3P Coordination Group should
work to solidify commitments from those who expressed initial interest at the
Workshop.

Time Frame

An initial draft can be completed with a 2-3 months of work from a W3C
staff member and comments/support of the P3P technical working group and
representative of the target non-http application domain. More time will be
required to finalize the problem, dependent on the schedule of the target
application.